John Ward
Black and White Cut Rim Bowl, 2001
Stoneware
6 1/4 inches high
Biography
Born in London in1938. Based in Wales.
Diploma in Art and Design (Ceramics) at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London 1966/70.
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2001 Courcoux & Courcoux, Stockbridge, Hampshire
1996 Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
1993 Oxford Gallery, Oxford
1992 "Recent Pots," Amalgam Gallery, Barnes, London
1990 "John Ward," GRAHAM, New York
1989 "Ceramics," Crafts Council Shop, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
"Recent Pots," Beauxarts, Bath
1987 "New Ceramics," Galerie Gilbert, Remetschwiel, Germany
1985 "New Pots," Craftsmen Potters Shop, London
1982 "Handbuilt Stoneware," Peter Dingley Gallery,
Stratford Upon Avon
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1991 "Pots by Chris Carter and John Ward," Peter Dingley Gallery,
Stratford Upon Avon
"Anne James, Lucie Rie, and John Ward," Peter Dingley
Gallery, Stratford Upon Avon
1990 "Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, and their Pupils," Sainsbury Centre,
University of East Anglia
"New British Ceramics," Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
1989 "British Studio Ceramics in the 20th Century," Paul Rice
Gallery, London
"Handbuilt Ceramics," Amalgam Gallery, Barnes, London
(David Howard Jones, John Ward), Courcoux and Courcoux,
Salisbury
1988 "Contemporary British Pottery, Spring '88," GRAHAM, NY
(Lucie Rie, Joanna Constantinidis, John Ward), Peter Dingley
Gallery, Stratford on Avon
"Coiled Pots," Oxford Gallery, Oxford
1987 (Peter Collingwood, John Ward), Peter Dingley Gallery,
Stratford on Avon
1986 "Angela Verdon, John Ward British Pottery, Spring '86,"
GRAHAM, New York
1985 "British Ceramics," Keramion, Frechen, Germany
"British Art and Craftwork," Rudesheim am Rhein, Germany
"European Ceramics and Wall Textures," Twentieth Century
Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
1984 "British Ceramics," Worms State Museum, Germany
(Jane Waller, John Ward) Amalgam Gallery, Barnes, London
1983 "Studio Ceramics Today," CPA Silver Jubilee Exhibition,
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1982 "British Pottery '82," (Geoffrey Swindell, John Ward),
GRAHAM, New York
"Contemporary British Ceramics," Fichtberg Art Museum, MA
1981 "New Members," Craftsmen Potters Shop, London
"English Ceramics," Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg,
Munich, Germany
1980 "English Ceramics," Museum for Arts and Crafts, Hamburg,
Germany
1978 "The Bowl," (touring exhibition arranged by W.C.C.) Rohsska
Museum, Goteburg, Sweden
(Lucie Rie, Eileen Lewenstein, John Ward) Peter Dingley
Gallery, Stratford on Avon
1976 "24 British potters," Pennsylvania State University Museum
of Art
1975 "Contemporary Ceramics," Brunel University, Uxbridge
1974 "New Faces," British Crafts Centre, London
Amalgam Gallery, Barnes, London
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1990 Watson, Oliver. British Studio Pottery, Phaidon Christies,
Oxford
Drexler, Martha Lynn. Clay Today, L.A. County Museum of
Art and Chronicle Books, San Francisco
Carter, Pat. A Dictionary of British Studio Pottery,
Scolar Press
1989 Rice, Paul and Christopher Gowing, British Studio Ceramics
in the 20th Century, Barrie & Jenkins, Ltd
Sexton, D. Article in Telegraph Weekend Magazine, 25 March
1988 Lane, Peter. Ceramic Form, Collins
1985 Article in Ceramica, Madrid, No. 21
Brayne, Stephen. "The Pottery of John Ward," Ceramic
Review, No. 96, November
1984 Bladino, Betty. Coiled Pottery, A & C Black
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Bolton Museum
Buckinghamshire Museum
Hamburg Museum
Leicester Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mills College
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Museum of Bellerive, Zurich
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Paisley Museum
Pennsylvania State Museum of Art
Royal Scottish Museum
Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire
Victoria & Albert Museum
